Sentence examples for as islanders from inspiring English sources

Puerto Ricans are a distinctive group because all of them are American citizens by birthright, whether they are "Nuyoricans" (as islanders who first settled in New York are known) or "puros" (the name for migrants from the US-governed island), and all can vote.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the Argentinian president, has called Cameron "arrogant" for insisting the islands would remain British as long as islanders wished it.

Hawaii, our island home, has the potential to become a model for learning to live well as islanders, in mindful balance of culture, environment and innovation - whether our islands are isolated land masses in the middle of the Pacific, or our Island Earth in the dark sea of space.

Absentee landownership and a declining population as islanders emigrate to New Zealand are ongoing problems.

However, Europeans in both trades were harsh and sometimes committed atrocities, and pearling declined as islanders began to take reprisals.

Mixed-race Tasmanians abound, but until the 1970's referred to themselves as Islanders or half-castes.

Therefore, many GI resources that are simply a database and have no downloadable software such as Islander (Mantri and Williams, 2004) could not be included into IslandViewer.

"We are listening to the views of our colleagues who have entered into this action and are focused on ensuring that any resolution is in the interests of islanders as well as our colleagues".

People neither born on the island nor living there are known as off-islanders, as in, "I'm having an off-islander over for cocktails next Thursday".

A few years later, a French Army captain described Lake Chad, which was dotted with hundreds of islands, as an ecological wonder and its inhabitants as "dreaded islanders, whose daring flotillas spread terror" along the mainland.

A government official who serves as a patient advocate appealed for calm as rattled islanders checked their doctors' qualifications.